US6114648A - Waste demolishing method and apparatus therefor - Google Patents

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US6114648A
US6114648A US09/311,280 US31128099A US6114648A US 6114648 A US6114648 A US 6114648A US 31128099 A US31128099 A US 31128099A US 6114648 A US6114648 A US 6114648A
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Hiroshi Takano
Tetsushi Yonekawa
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B09—DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
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  • the present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for demolishing an oil-containing industrial waste object such as, for example, a compressor or an automotive engine.
  • the manual dismantling by fusing generates flames and involves the danger of fire or burns.
  • oil contained in the industrial waste object may be ignited.
  • the ambient atmosphere is degraded by production of smoke, and there are also limits on the processing capacity of the operator.
  • the present invention has been developed to overcome the above-described disadvantages.
  • the present invention provides a method of demolishing an oil-containing industrial waste object, which comprises the steps of placing an oil-containing industrial waste object within an atmosphere full of an inert gas, and rotating the industrial waste object and irradiating the industrial waste object with a plasma from a plasma arc torch, to thereby cut the industrial waste object horizontally.
  • the method referred to above may be cyclically repeated while one of the industrial waste object and the plasma arc torch is moved stepwise relative to the other of the industrial waste object and the plasma arc torch.
  • the industrial waste object is cut horizontally or vertically into slices.
  • the plasma is selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen plasma and an air plasma.
  • the present invention also provides an apparatus for demolishing an oil-containing industrial waste object, which includes a turntable for supporting thereon of an oil-containing industrial waste object, a sealed enclosure mounted above the turntable for gas-tightly enclosing the industrial waste object, a fluid pumping means for sucking a fluid medium out from the sealed enclosure, and a plasma arc torch fitted inside the sealed enclosure for radiating the industrial waste object with a plasma.
  • a fluid pumping means for sucking a fluid medium out from the sealed enclosure
  • a plasma arc torch fitted inside the sealed enclosure for radiating the industrial waste object with a plasma.
  • the oil-containing industrial waste object is cut by the plasma arc torch while placed under the atmosphere rich of the inert gas, there is no possibility that the oil contained in the industrial waste object may be ignited. Therefore, the industrial waste object can be demolished safely.
  • the apparatus since the apparatus has a capability of allowing the industrial waste object to be repeatedly cut, the industrial waste object can be cut efficiently and in a short time into a number of slices each having a desired size.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic side sectional view of a demolishing apparatus embodying the present invention.
  • the sealed compressor W includes a substantially hermetically sealed housing 2 accommodating therein an electric motor and various compressor component parts together with a quantity of lubricant oil for lubricating the compressor component parts during operation of the compressor.
  • the lubricant oil in the sealed compressor W is hazardous in that it can be ignited, with the compressor W itself consequently exploding, when the compressor W is demolished by means of, for example, cutting under an oxygen-rich atmosphere.
  • a demolishing apparatus embodying the present invention is generally identified by A.
  • This apparatus A includes a support base 4, a turntable 6 rotatably mounted on a center area of the support base 4, and a transparent sealed enclosure 8 made preferably of plastics and mounted sealingly on the support base 4 so as to cover the turntable 6.
  • the sealed enclosure 8 may be separable relative to the support base 4 or may have a door although neither is shown.
  • the turntable 6 is drivingly coupled with a rotary drive source 14 such as, for example, an electric drive motor through a reduction gear unit including a large-diameter gear 12 rotatable together with the turntable 6 and a small-diameter gear 16 meshed with the large-diameter gear 12 and rigidly connected to a drive shaft of the rotary drive source 14.
  • a rotary drive source 14 such as, for example, an electric drive motor through a reduction gear unit including a large-diameter gear 12 rotatable together with the turntable 6 and a small-diameter gear 16 meshed with the large-diameter gear 12 and rigidly connected to a drive shaft of the rotary drive source 14.
  • the interior of the sealed enclosure 8 is fluid-connected with a vacuum pump 20 through an electromagnetic valve 18 and accommodates therein a plasma arc torch 22.
  • the plasma arc torch 22 is fixedly carried by a lower end of a vertically movable fluid supply tube 24 that extends in a airtight manner out of the sealed enclosure 8 through a dome-shaped top wall 8a of the sealed enclosure 8 and through which a fluid medium such as a nitrogen gas is supplied to the plasma arc torch 22.
  • the sealed enclosure 8 includes a generally cylindrical side wall 8b across which an inert gas supply tube 26 extends in a airtight manner so as to supply an inert gas such as a nitrogen gas into the interior of the sealed enclosure 8.
  • the demolishing apparatus A also includes a pressure gauge 28 mounted externally on the side wall 8b for detecting the pressure inside the sealed enclosure 8, and a safety relief valve 30 mounted on the top wall 8a for protecting the sealed enclosure 8 in the event of the interior pressure exceeding a predetermined value.
  • the rotary drive source 14, the electromagnetic valve 18, the vacuum pump 20, and various electromagnetic valves disposed on the supply tubes 24 and 26 are electrically connected with a controller so that they can be sequentially controlled by the controller on a time sharing basis.
  • the demolishing apparatus of the structure described above is operated in the following manner.
  • a work to be demolished that is, the compressor W is first loaded into the seated enclosure 8 through an access opening (not shown) which may be defined by the door or by separating the enclosure 8 from the support base 4, so as to be seated on the turntable 6.
  • the electromagnetic valve 18 is opened and the vacuum pump 20 is driven to evacuate the interior of the sealed enclosure 8 to a predetermined negative pressure.
  • the inert gas is supplied into the sealed enclosure 8 through the inert gas supply tube 26 to such a density that nothing can be ignited or fired within the sealed enclosure 8.
  • the rotary drive source 14 is activated to rotate the turntable 6 through the reduction gear unit including the mutually meshed gears 12 and 16 to allow the compressor W to rotate together with the turntable 6.
  • the plasma arc torch 22 is then moved to a predetermined height above the support base 4, and the plasma arc torch 22 is subsequently energized electrically while the fluid medium such as the nitrogen gas is supplied thereto through the fluid supply tube 24.
  • the plasma arc torch 22 produces a plasma arc with which a portion of the compressor irradiated by the plasma arc starts melting. Accordingly, as the compressor W is turned together with the rotation of the turntable 6, the compressor W can be cut by the plasma arc horizontally at a level spaced a predetermined distance above the support base 4.
  • the compressor W can be cut into a plurality of round slices, the number of which corresponds to the number of steps the plasma arc torch 22 is lifted or lowered repeatedly.
  • the lubricant oil remaining in the bottom of the compressor W has a viscosity lowered under the influence of heat generated by the plasma arc and can therefore, be recovered easily.
  • the reduction gear unit has been described as including the gears 12 and 16, it may include a belt drive system including pulleys of different diameters and an endless belt trained therebetween. Also, instead of the plasma arc torch being movable up and down, the work to be demolished may be moved up and down relative to the plasma arc torch together with the turntable 6.
  • an air plasma can be equally employed.
  • the work to be demolished may not be always limited to compressor, but may any of oil-containing industrial waste objects including automotive engines.

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